Early Look: 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships
Early Look: 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships
We are just under a month away from the final major tournament of the year: the 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships.
We are just under a month away from the final major tournament of the year: the 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships.
Set to go down in Anaheim, California, on Dec. 12-15, the event has already netted a sizable competitors list that includes some of today’s top-ranked athletes.
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Light-feather is currently among the more stacked black belt divisions and features a bevy of exciting potential matchups. The fresh black belt Jonnas Andrade is set to mix it up with talented veterans, including Lucas Pinheiro, Renez Lopez, Hiago George, and Gabriel Souza, among others.
A few no-gi world champions have also thrown their names into the hat for this year's festivities, including Roberto "Cyborg" Abreu in at ultra-heavy, Otavio Sousa will fight middleweight, Samir Chantre is signed up as feather, and Marcio Andre is featured at Lightweight.
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Women's past champions already registered to compete include Karen Antunes, Mayssa Bastos, registered at Light and roosterweight, respectively. Other key competitors in the women's ranks included like Talita Alencar, Amanda Monteiro, Catherine Perret, Amanda Lowen, Thamara Ferreira, and Raquel Canuto.
Competitors List as of 11/14/19
BLACK / Adult / Male / Rooster
| Ares BJJ | Taniel Santos de Jesus |
| PSLPB Cicero Costha | Thalison Vitorino Soares |
| Tri-Force Jiu-Jitsu Academy | Nobuhiro Sawada |
| Unity Jiu-jitsu | David B. Zennario |
| Total: 4 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Light-Feather
| Atos JJ USA | Lucas dos Santos Pinheiro |
| Brasa CTA | Rene Eduardo Lopez |
| PSLPB Cicero Costha | Francisco Jonas Borges Andrade |
| PSLPB Cicero Costha | Hiago George Santos Silva |
| Renato Tavares Association | Suraj Kumar Budhram |
| Werdum Combat Team France | Anthony Guy De Oliveira |
| ZR Team California | João Gabriel Batista de Sousa |
| Total: 7 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Feather
| Ares BJJ | Samir José Chantre Dahás |
| Fight Sports | Orlando Fernando Castillo Andaviza |
| Fight Sports International | Thomas James Halpin |
| GF Team | Israel de Sousa Almeida |
| Tinguinha BJJ Academy | Cole Thomas Franson |
| Unity Jiu-Jitsu Brasil | Thiago Aguiar Abud |
| Zenith BJJ | Emilio Alejandro Hernandez-Rodgriquez |
| Total: 7 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Light
| Absolute MMA Australia | Lachlan John Warne |
| Alliance Charlotte | Frederico Augusto Alves Silva |
| Alliance Marcelo Garcia | Athos Ribeiro de Miranda |
| Carpe Diem | Tomoshige Sera |
| Nova União | Marcio Andre da Costa Barbosa Junior |
| Open Mat Mixed Martial Arts | Daniel Seth Davis |
| Rodrigo Freitas Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | Rodrigo Lamounier de Freitas |
| Zenith BJJ | Leonardo Domingos Costa Benedito |
| Total: 8 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Middle
| 99 Nine Nine JJ - International | Sergio Raimundo Rios da Silva |
| GF Team Ohio | Robert G. Malof |
| Gracie Barra Huntington Beach | Otavio Ferreira de Sousa |
| Gracie Barra Nottingham | Oliver Johnathon Lovell |
| Pirâmide Grappling Association | Marco Aurellio de Queiroz |
| Unity Jiu-jitsu | Felipe Cesar Silva |
| Total: 6 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Medium-Heavy
| Alliance SP | Edson Antonio de Oliveira Filho |
| BARBOSA JIU-JITSU | Marcos Vinicius de Oliveira Martins |
| Hilti BJJ Turku | Jaakko Vilander |
| Total: 3 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Heavy
| American Top Team Junior Fernandes | Charles Kilyan Mcguire |
| Atos Jiu-Jitsu | Helton Jose Mendes da Silva Junior |
| CheckMat | Jackson Sousa dos Santos |
| Inglorious Grapplers | Max Leon Bickerton |
| Ralph Gracie | Nicholas Greene |
| Unity Jiu-jitsu | Devhonte M. Johnson |
| Total: 6 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Super-Heavy
| Checkmat Northridge | Arnaldo Maidana de Oliveira |
| Gracie Humaita International | Jan Victor Zander |
| Team Lloyd Irvin | Roberto Torralbas |
| Yemaso Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | Eliot Andrew Kelly |
| Total: 4 | |
BLACK / Adult / Male / Ultra-Heavy
| Fight Sports | Roberto de Abreu Filho |
| Vinny Magalhaes BJJ | Vinicius de Magalhães |
| Total: 2 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Rooster
| GF Team | Mayssa Caldas Pereira Bastos |
| Gracie Barra New Mexico | Amber Rymarz-freitas |
| Total: 2 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Light-Feather
| Brazilian Top Team - ATX | Patrícia Magalhães Machado |
| GF Team | Amanda Monteiro Nogueira |
| Notorious Mixed Martial Arts | Fiona M. Watson |
| Total: 3 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Feather
| Absolute MMA Australia | Liwia Gluchowska |
| Alliance Los Angeles | Ana Talita de Oliveira Alencar |
| Atos Jiu-Jitsu | Heather H. Raftery |
| Atos JJ International | Georgina Contel Gallego |
| CheckMat | Gabriela Meireles Fechter |
| CheckMat USA | Karen Deisy Antunes Girotto Borges |
| Total: 6 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Light
| Brazil 021 International | Kristin Mikkelson |
| CheckMat USA | Catherine Fuhro Perret |
| Mako Team Paris | Veronica Macedo Fernandez |
| Total: 3 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Middle
| Barum Jiu-Jitsu | Anna Sophia Maria Nordenö |
| CheckMat | Raquel Dayne Kaleialoha Canuto |
| Gracie Humaita International | Hannah Katharina Rauch |
| SBG International (SBGI) | Amanda Loewen |
| Total: 4 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Medium-Heavy
| Checkmat New York | Vedha Clemente Toscano |
| PSLPB Cicero Costha | Thamara Ferreira Silva |
| Soul Fighters Texas | Jessica Lynn Guedry |
| Total: 3 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Heavy
| BARBOSA JIU-JITSU | Graciele Del Fava De Carvalho |
| Total: 1 | |
BLACK / Adult / Female / Super-Heavy
| Gracie Barra New Mexico | Tammy M Griego |
| Total: 1 | |